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lizzy14 said:
[COLOR=4B0082]Hello everyone, I am located in the Western Finger Lakes region, south of Rochester. We've had chickens for about 4 years but lost most of our flock to a fox recently.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=4B0082]We are planning to hatch our own for the first time, picking up some eggs April 25. We could use about a dozen more eggs to fill out the 'bator. Do any of you know of hatching eggs available in the Buffalo/Rochester/Finger Lakes area? We really don't want to keep cockerels so I'm preferring autosexing breeds, but may bend if I don't find any.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=4B0082]I've been lurking on these forums for a few years and have learned so much about chickens from you all. Thanks for any help you can give![/COLOR]

[COLOR=4B0082]-Liz[/COLOR]
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Welcome to the thread!

I've got spitzhaubens laying right now. When I started up my bator, I threw in a bunch of eggs I thought had gotten quite cold. 100% fertility & development on the spitz eggs, lol. Will likely have chicks next week, a little earlier than I had planned. :). Guess that's one of the hazards of owning an incubator.
 
Thanks Rancher I am thoroughly excited about this endeavor.. Am I weird or what? lol
It dawned on me last night as I was bidding on some duck eggs, that I can't incubated goose and chicken eggs together.
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So than I decided well I might as well go buy a still air incubator since goose eggs don't fit in the turner of the incubator I bought. Duh Wende what were you thinking? lol I really hope something hatches...... But, the best part of this will be the learning process right? However I think even if I bid and win duck eggs I can add them a few days after with the goose eggs and the hatch might go along pretty well.
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Even if I get one of each I will have learned something right?
 
Oh and I forgot to mention that TSC had the cutest bantam's and barred rock chicks.... So I bought 6 more lol. This brings my chick total to 20. Plus four ducklings. And 6 goose eggs and 6 lavender orphington eggs. Hope the chicken coop my husband is building will be big enough. haha. I feel like a crazy chicken hoarder or something.
 
mswendeu said:
Oh and I forgot to mention that TSC had the cutest bantam's and barred rock chicks.... So I bought 6 more lol. This brings my chick total to 20. Plus four ducklings. And 6 goose eggs and 6 lavender orphington eggs. Hope the chicken coop my husband is building will be big enough. haha. I feel like a crazy chicken hoarder or something.
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Welcome to the Thread ! mswendeu
A interesting mix ...you will have .
Youve Caught our disease
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Pass it on ! Deborah

Welcome Also too !
 
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Thanks Gramma Chick I really have been enjoying some posts even if I don't chime in. And yes welcome to the others who joined as well. Have a great weekend I am going to busy planning a hatch o rama!
 
Our hatch has started. Pips galore! Bantam chick is the first one out.

The chickens are beginning to lay more now that it has been warmer outside. My pekins have been laying good the past 2 weeks. Maybe spring has arrived,
 

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